Tag Archives: Insects
Rarely photographed bees and other species
I’m writing this post as I think this past month was unusually high in number of interesting findings, including species that possibly got recorded alive for the first time – not photographed recently but from my archive. I haven’t been out photographing lately due to high gas/lodging prices and the diminishing returns of short 1-2 days expeditions, so in the meantime I’ve been processing older photos that either I haven’t followed through with identification at the time or just didn’t think they looked good enough compared to other photos I got in the queue to post.
When I say possibly recorded alive for the first time, it’s difficult to say for sure as my reference is google not showing any indexed photos of live (or sometimes not even fixed) specimens, they might have been photographed before but maybe just not identified or not uploaded anywhere, as is the case with myself, they were just sitting in my hard disk for years.… Continue reading
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Tagged bees, entomology, Insects, macrophotography, photonaturalism
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Lycosidae & Pompilidae aka the wolf and the hawk
Pepsis species vs wolf spider
ISO400 | f/22 | 1/200 @55mm, under the sun with fill flash
I find parasitic wasps the most challenging ones to get their pictures taken, they are not social so you can’t find a bunch sitting in a nest like we are used for most. They are solitary, and when looking around for hosts they barely sit still, always walking and frenetically scanning the ground with their antennae. Pepsis is a genus with about 130 species from the Americas, these wasps belongs to the Pompilidae family bearing some of the biggest wasps in the world. They are specialized in spider hunting, hence the famous tarantula hawk nickname for some of the species.… Continue reading
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Tagged Insects, macrophotography, parasitic wasp, parasitism, rainforest
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